96. OMG you and the Kos poster are completely clueless about what Snowden means by "authorities".

He isn't talking about the legal authority to do anything, he is talking about the computer authorities that restrict what you can do and where you can go...the "compartment" setup that restricts what a person can see.

Obviously he wasn't supposed to have full reign to look and take everything he did. The thumb drives were supposed to be disabled!

His point is they never put the time into safekeeping their data to make sure it was impossible to misuse. And this audit by looking at the use of NSA programs is so stupid...that is not how Snowden would have pulled up this data. He would have WRITTEN HIS OWN QUERY to search the raw sigint. Don't you ever watch criminal minds? What do you think Penelope is doing all the time?